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Category: Everyday Stories

  • Friday former cat blogging

    Friday former cat blogging

    Below is Woody (Woodrow). Back in the late 1970s, a Scottish singer Marty was working with gave us a call to tell us someone they knew had a couple of 3-day-old kittens on their hands, the mom had given birth and run off promptly so they were looking for someone to take care of the…

  • Another Bowling Ball Guy

    Another Bowling Ball Guy

    [clear] Coffee table This is our coffee table. Another one of the bowling ball head guys. I started doing them when H.o.p. was young, though wasn’t doing stick figures like this, but he did do those blazing suns that kids do. I just liked the idea of stripping things down to the bare bones archetype.…

  • Flower petals don’t just get up and walk off by themselves

    We are both sick here with the same symptoms so we are sick and isn’t just something we ate and isn’t simply a bad day. I pretty much literally crawled out of bed this morning and then pulled myself up. The bed is on the floor so that’s one thing, but my body hurt too…

  • When it’s all a game, Willy Pete is just another prop

    Denied last December and back for another round with fresh confirmations, the U.S.’s use of white phosphorous, aka Willy Pete, in Fallujah. A blog With a View is one of those that’s posted on it and I followed the link to the photographs of charred flesh and bone dressed up in unburned clothes, charred flesh…

  • King Mill and the Golden Cherry

    King Mill and the Golden Cherry

    King Mill and canal, Augusta, Ga. 1970s Marty worked briefly at the King cotton mill after we were married but I didn’t take pics of the mill until after he’d worked there. Across the canal from it was the bulk of the cotton mill neighborhood, the worst part of which, the tenements lining the street,…

  • Wonderings on something I know little about

    I’ve been reading these Egyptian love poems which seem to me to not be just love poems, though I could be wrong. In the 9th poem given from a selection of fragments, the lover enters the river to cross to his “sister” on the far side, a crocodile waiting in the shallows. The introduction reads,…

  • Portrait of Donna

    Portrait of Donna

    Donna Pastel, hand tint and digital painting over black and white photo 13 by 12 inches Donna (don’t recollect her last name) had the largest eyes. Very pretty, unusual looking girl with these huge eyes. Another person I have no idea what happened to. Will you look at those eyes? I had done a larger…

  • When copyright lawyers get imaginative

    Another guy down at the studio right now has some intellectual property lawyers in recording a CD for the Christian market, convinced they will make millions off of it. Have no idea if they are Christians. All are songs that they’ve written based on the bible. My husband was there when they were recording one…

  • On "Stranger in Paradise"

    Years ago when I had a real photo set up I concentrated on doing architectural shots. With the digital painting I’ve focused on faces but the other night when we were dropped off at Burger King by the tow truck, we walked in to a lush old version of “Strangers in Paradise” playiing. Despite it…

  • Oh, coolest costume and strangest sight of the night

    Coolest costume was the kid dressed as a table. A big full blown 3 door widths size table with place settings. And the most bizarre sighting of the night? My brother, driving, asked, “Am I seeing what I think I’m seeing or are my eyes playing tricks on me?” In front of us was a…

  • Yeah, we had a scary Halloween

    Where I-85 meets I-285 in Atlanta is a well-known landmark called Spaghetti Junction, an insane wowzer of over and underpasses, on and off ramps, composed of 16 bridges, the tallest of which rises 100 feet in the air. It’s a scary place. A number of bad accidents there. The bridges are skinny things with mack…

  • Any one for Seconds?

    So imagine this. You enter the UN building and find a seat on the floor. You’re there to hear Thomas P. M. Barnett, author of “Blueprint for Action” speak. But it’s all virtual reality. You are there in Avatar form via a computer with the hardware for it. Thomas P. M. Barnett is there in…